Tickets for McNeese game on sale Aug. 2

Tickets for Lamar University’s season-opening football game Sept. 4 against McNeese State will go on sale at 10 a.m. Aug. 2 and might initially be available only through the McNeese State ticket office.

The game, which will be played in Lake Charles, La., will be Lamar football’s first game since 1989, when the then-university board of regents elected to drop the program.

Lamar will receive from McNeese an initial allotment of 456 reserved-section tickets behind the Lamar bench, but Lamar has not announced when those tickets will be put on sale.

Fans who wish to purchase tickets through McNeese can do so either at the box office, online or by phone. Reserved-section seats will cost $20. General admission seats cost $17.

To order tickets through the McNeese ticket office, call (337) 562-4678 or click here. Remember that tickets are not on sale until Aug. 2, so don’t call yet.

In additional ticket news, Lamar is expected to put single-game tickets for all six home games on sale Aug. 2 — the same day tickets for the McNeese game will be put on sale — but no official announcement has been made. Until then, the university will continue to push its season ticket packages, the least-expensive of which is $60 for seats near the end zones.